The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.

The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.

  • DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 days ago

    Nevada uses two forms for gathering signatures, one for candidates and another for ballot initiatives. The Secretary of State gave the Green Party the wrong form. The forms are basically identical.

    It is not the first time Democrats has used dubious methods to deprive Green Party ballot access.

    • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      43·
      9 days ago

      The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

      Yeah sure, it’s the Democrats who are being dubious here…

      • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
        32·
        9 days ago

        And that is followed by

        Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.

        Not Democratic party malfeasance.

      • ABCDE@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 days ago

        The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot

        Seems as fishy as Stein’s intentions.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          11·
          9 days ago

          The outcome would either be a victory for the Democrats or a victory for the Republicans. So what part is fishy?

          On top of that, Nevada’s governor is a Republican.